Quality Management Lead - Civils

Job Title: Quality Management Lead (Civils)

Pay: £415.70 PAYE or £578.96 Umbrella

Location: Based in our Suffolk office with hybrid working

Job ID: 1967

Job Purpose / Overview

The purpose of the Quality Management Lead (QML) is to ensure Project quality requirements are complied with across the full project life-cycle (Contract award, Design, Procurement, Manufacture, Test, Shipping, Construction/Installation, Test/Commission and Contract close out).

The post holder will work in close collaboration with all other project functions (particularly the Commercial/Supply Chain Function, the Responsible Designer and their surveillance providers) and the suppliers, contract partners and their sub-contractors to ensure that project quality is delivered consistently (safely, efficiently and right first time) compliant with the scope of work and quality arrangements. A degree of international travel to suppliers' facilities will be required.

Principal Accountabilities

General

• Support the development of quality (QA/QC) arrangements for deployment across the organisation;
• Implement key quality arrangements related to the following topics:
  
  
  
  • Manage Quality Execution
  • Support Technical Assessment of Suppliers
  • Conduct Supplier Audit
  • Conducting Manufacturing Surveillance
  • Modulating Manufacturing Surveillance
  • Management of Non-Conformances
  • Quality Release Certificate Process (where applicable);
  
  

• Undertake actions to resolve issues relating to the implementation of quality and to bring about improvements, and support others in these actions.

Primary accountability

• Review, accept and monitor Contractors Quality Assurance Plans (CQAP) provided by the supply chain;
• Identify needs for supply chain audits, perform audits and resolve findings;
• Produce Project Quality Control Plans (PQCP) for each contract/project;

Secondary accountability

• Checking the Works are constructed in accordance with the contract and notify of non-conformances.
• Proactively communicating with other site teams, maintaining good communication links and ensuring surveillance is timely reported.
• Identifying potential Quality issues before they arrive to enable mitigating actions.
• Supporting team instructions to take temporary measures to mitigate and keep works safe and within Quality standards. Following up by taking appropriate and proportionate action (e.g. issuing communications, calling meetings) to prevent delays to works.
• Ensuring design decisions are not taken "in the field" by EDF Energy or contractors, but are considered and approved via a formal process.
• Ensuring tasks are developed to quality in accordance with the company's requirement for health, safety and environment.
• Developing and maintaining an understanding of construction drawings, construction activities, Quality Control Plans and Quality Inspection Records.
• Ensuring and that Quality Inspection Records are taken and agreed before Works are covered up.
• Reviewing Contractor performance against the authorised Quality Control Plan.
• Implement the quality execution plan within the Programme and undertaken reviews and checks to ensure quality is delivered by the supply chain efficiently and in accordance with programme quality requirements;
• Ensure supplier quality control requirements are adequately specified within contract documentation submitted in the Invitation To Tender (ITT);

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications, Experience

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

• Position requires experience in project delivery, preferably in the nuclear power sector, with significant focus on project quality, with a solid understanding of the Quality Assurance and Quality Control in major projects across engineering, procurement, manufacturing, construction and commissioning.
• A clear and considerable understanding of quality management best practice for deployment by large, complex and contract-led organisations.
• Confident and articulate communicator, able to prepare presentation material, and comfortable addressing individuals, small groups and very large audiences.
• Able to support and implement practical solutions, whilst remaining open to the ideas of others.
• Experience of interfacing with project teams and with supply chain organisations.
• Analysis of data, preparing reports and making recommendations.
• The ability to influence and to provide constructive challenge which is accepted by others.
• The ability to build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• A team player who recognises how their position impacts and influences others.
• Pro-active and flexible, being prepared to plan and work on own initiative.
• Fluent in English language.

Desirable

• Knowledge of the nuclear sector, ideally new build.
• Knowledge & understanding of nuclear site license conditions.
• Ability to speak French is advantageous.
• Knowledge of pressure and nuclear codes
• Knowledge of Welding, Non Destructive Testing (NDT), Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE)

Qualifications & Experience

Essential

• A HNC/HND qualification or degree in a relevant science or engineering subject, or equivalent qualification.

Desirable

• Hold a professional accreditation
• Corporate Member or working towards membership of the Chartered Quality Institute & Chartered Quality Professional
• Commercial exposure, especially supplier management
• Experience of interacting with regulators e.g. the ONR.
• Knowledge of Improvement Methodologies, Tools & Techniques eg. Lean 6 Sigma